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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Of the Wings of Traplanta : (Re)Historicizing W.E.B. Du Bois’ Atlanta in the Hip Hop South
Beteiligte:
Vaught, Seneca;
Bradley, Regina N.
Erschienen:
The Clark Atlanta University of Race and Culture, 2017
Erschienen in:Phylon (1960-)
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0031-8906;
2325-7199
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Beschreibung:
<p>Despite the numerous critical appraisals of W.E.B. Du Bois’<italic>Soul of Black Folk</italic>, relatively few scholars have delved into the ongoing relevance of one of the book’s most poignant essays. The fifth chapter, “Of the Wings of Atalanta,” presents a complex moral reading of a nascent city in the post-bellum South and its role in recurring debates about morality, progress, and the nature of true education. This paper argues that reflections on Du Bois’ “Of the Wings of Atalanta” shed light on understudied aspects of Black history and Southern history but also interdisciplinary discourse about Hip Hop culture and the meaning of progress in Atlanta’s Hip Hop generation.</p>